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Social externalism implies that many competences are not personal assets separable from social and cultural environments but complex states of affairs involving individuals and persisting features of social reality. The paper explores the consequences for competence identity over time and across contexts, and hence for the predictive role usually accorded to competences.
Notes
1. Goldman Citation(1970) distinguished between epistemic and non-epistemic senses of ability. In this paper I am unenthusiastic about the alleged non-epistemic variety.
2. I have explored at least some of the ideas in this paper in different ways in other publications including Davis (Citation1998, chap. 6; forthcoming).